Defects and Diffusion in Metals XII

This twelfth volume in the series covering the latest results in the field includes abstracts of papers which appeared between the publication of Annual Retrospective XI (Volume 293) and the end of September 2010 (journal availability permitting).As well as the 562 metals abstracts, the issue includes: &quote;Bulk Diffusion of Homovalent Atomic Probes of Scandium, Lanthanum and Thorium in Single Crystals of Tungsten&quote; (Klotsman, Tatarinova & Timofeev), &quote;Behaviour of Artificial Aging in 6066 Alloy using Microhardness and Nuclear Techniques&quote; (Badawi, Abdel-Rahman, El-Nahhas & Abdel-Rahman), &quote;Structure and Hardness of Al-Fe-Ti Alloys&quote; (Bendjeddou & Debili), &quote;Electrical Resistivity Improvement by Precipitation and Strain in Al-Cu Thin Films&quote; (Lallouche & Debili), &quote;Density Functional Theory Study of Kink with P in BCC Iron&quote; (Chen, Yu & Qiu), &quote;Formulation of Impurity-Vacancy Pair Formation Energy in Fast Diffusion&quote; (Ghorai), &quote;Theoretical Study of the Local Distortion for Ni+ in Magnesium Oxide (Li), &quote;A Study of the Physical Properties of Te15(Se100-xBix)85 Glassy Alloys&quote; (Kumar, Thakur, Katyal & Sharma), &quote;Non-Gaussian Local Density Diffusion Model for Boron Diffusion in Si- and SixGe1-x Ultra-Shallow Junction Post-Implant and Advanced Rapid-Thermal-Anneals&quote; (Wirbeleit), &quote;Studies of the EPR Parameters and Local Structure for the Cu2+ Center in Lanthanum Magnesium Nitrate&quote; (Kuang, Zhang & Xu), &quote;Synthesis and Characterization of Zinc Phosphates in Aqueous and Non-Aqueous Media with (2-Hydroxyethyl) Trimethyl Ammonium Hydroxide as Template&quote; (Samadi-Maybodi & Nejad-Darzi), &quote;Simulation-Based Apparent Surface Free-Energy Analysis for Hydrophobic and Superhydrophobic Surfaces&quote; (Malik, Tang & Liu), &quote;Study of the Dielectric, Magnetic and Resistive Properties of Various Substances&quote; (Ghorai, Singh, Hota & Bej), &quote;Improvement of the Modified Dry-Cup Method for Determination of the Diffusion Coefficients of Gaseous Pollutants in Building Materials&quote; (Goncalves, Silva, Santos & Fernandes).The first half of this annual volume contains 14 research papers examining physical defect and diffusion in metals, primarily, although a handful of the contributions discuss ceramics and semiconductors. The second half contains 562 research paper abstracts on the same topic, arranged alphabetically by metal, from Ag (silver) to Zr (zirconium). Also included are author, materials, and keyword indexes. Distributed in the US by Enfield.